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Law 11 - Offside
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Law 11 - Offside 7/6/2016

Scott of Honolulu, Hawaii USA asks...

I am a new referee and learning. While AR for a non-competitive high school summer league, I had an interesting situation. While attacking, the two strikers are in the offside position at the time of the shot, closing in towards the GK, but not in th...

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Law 11 - Offside 7/3/2016

Filippo of Palermo, Italy asks...

The new text of Law 11 reads:

'An attacking player may step or stay off the field of play not to be involved in active play. If the player re-enters from the goal line and becomes involved in play before the next stoppage in play, OR THE DEF...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/27/2016

Iai of Las Vegas, Nevada USA asks...

If a defender deflects a pass to an attacker in an offside position, is he offside?...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/23/2016

Nick of Peterborough, Ontario Canada asks...

While I was reffing an old timers game I came across a situation where the defending player who was under pressure in his own end plays the ball back (likely to his keeper) however he kicks it into a crowd of three players (mix of attacking/defending...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/20/2016

Jeff of Canmore, Alberta Canada asks...

Offense player crosses centre, approaching the offside line. Another offensive player is on the goal side of offside line, in on offside position. Player carrying the ball takes a long shot on goal, and the goalkeeper plays the ball, with a deflectio...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/18/2016

Kurt of Poolesville , Maryland Usa asks...

The situation is our team defending a free kick from 5 yards or so out of the penalty area. Our team forms a wall and prior to our players pull up towards the wall, leaving several of their players in an offsides position. If the ball goes into the g...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/16/2016

Dave of Southamptob, UK asks...

In Euro 2016, Jamie Vardy stood in an off-line position, as the ball was played to him.

It reached him after being deflected off a Welsh defenders head.

Why is Vardy not off-line, as still interfering with play etc?

Thanks ...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/11/2016

Phil of Tarzana, CA United States asks...

I have an offside question under the new rules. I remember a pro game a couple years ago where the A1 kicked the ball toward an offside teammate, A2. A2 realized that he was offside & so let an opponent get the ball, although he sort of danced to a...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/6/2016

Larry of Danville, CA USA asks...

Your referenced video shows a player in an offside position who runs a long distance to get the ball, and the AR waits to make certain that the player is going to touch it before raising the flag. I thought the AR did the right thing, as that ball m...

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Law 11 - Offside 6/5/2016

Jim Monahan of Milton, Vermont USA asks...

My son's team recently played in their state cup finals and lost 1-0 to a controversial call. Please take a look at this video and give me your opinion on the corner kick which was called offsides.

https://youtu.be/yQOnL3ZyeBk

Thank...

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